On a routine scan of Event Viewer System, Logs I found this message on 4 different servers hosting SQL Server installations

The kerberos client received a KRB_AP_ERR_MODIFIED error from the server MYCOMPUTER$. This indicates that the password used to encrypt the kerberos service ticket is different than that on the target server. Commonly, this is due to identically named machine accounts in the target realm (MY.DOMAIN.NET), and the client realm. Please contact your system administrator.

Why was this occurring?

1) A client was using a DNS CNAME to point traffic to serverB after decommissioning serverA . Removing the CNAME would have resolved the issue

2) An entry in the /etc/hosts file . After renaming a server and setting up a new one with the same name the host-entry was not updated and so the new server pointed to the IP address of the old one